Amazon and Central Africa Forest Change Products

The NASA Landsat Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project mapped global deforestation for the humid tropics. Data
sets from both the TM (Thematic Mapper) and MSS (Multispectral Scanner System) of Landsat were used for three time
periods in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The project focused on the three regions where most of the tropical
deforestation in the world has occurred - the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia. Mapping deforestation in
these three regions accounts for the majority of deforestation activities in closed tropical
forests worldwide. These products are country-based representations of forest cover change.